PORT PHILLIP LEADER
JORDY ATKINSON
HOMOPHOBIC flyers likening the rainbow flag to the swastika have been stuffed into letterboxes throughout St Kilda.
This homophobic flyer was stuffed into letterboxes throughout St Kilda.
The flyers’ claims that “state propaganda has morphed from Nazi political perversion into perverted gay activism for abnormal marriage equality” have been slammed by a leading civil rights organisation as “repulsive slurs”.
“The flags of the perverted rainbow are now emblazoned not just on city council offices, public walkways and in public parades but on churches as well; for the same reasons the perverted cross (the swastika) was paraded en-mass in pre-war Germany,” The Death of Reason and the Rainbow Walk To Insanity flyer states.
Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich told the Leader the flyers were proof the “virus of bigotry remains a powerful force in Australia”.
“It shocks the conscience that such virulently anti-gay rhetoric has invaded the homes of residents in St Kilda, promoting its message of hate and exploiting the holocaust to demonise the LGBTQI community and those supporting marriage equality,” he said.
“It is also deplorable that this extremist group is twisting the teaching of Christianity in service of their warped agenda and reprehensible incitement.
“We must all band together to defeat this growing threat and promote tolerance and inclusivity over the ideology of prejudice that these materials contain.”
More than 50,000 people flock to the beachside suburb every year as part of the Pride March, which has been held there since 1996.
Earlier this year St Kilda was announced as the home to the state’s first Pride Centre.
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The Leader has attempted to contact the author of the flyers.